Dr Laura

This kind of attitude is fascist/hippie nonsense. Get yourself a bigger radio than the next man is what you should do. Or at least a fucking walkman.

I would have sat back and heckled the radio, much the same way I do at home. Alternately, I would have started singing arias.

Anthony, baby, you know I love you but you really are too high strung. Dr. Laura is a filthy slut bag shit for brains who deserves nothing less than to be drawn and quartered, I can't help but agree. However, going off like that on a bus? Lord, why ruin your day over something like that?

The funny thing about Star Trek is that its fans often times position themselves as David against the hulkingly stupid Goliath that is Star Wars, solely becaue Star Trek was a television show while Star Wars was a movie, despite the fact that the ST books outnumber the SW books about 3 to 1.

Don't read books about TV shows, watch TV shows.

It's difficult to watch TV shows on the bus or train, though. Besides, I vastly prefer reading to watchnig TV. If I could get fictionalized accounts of the current seasons of The Real World and Road Rules, I'd never have to turn my TV on again (except for South Park).

Having said all that, I'm forced to admit that the last time I read a Star Wars book was 17 years ago and I've never read a Star Trek book. I do read the Doctor Who books, though, and about 95% of those are much better than the television show ever was.

Dan, the original TWOP-er.

I'm not going to delve into anything as dorky or nerdy like Star Trek except to say that Star Trek IV was one of the few movies that actually got time-travel right (You can't change history, you can only make it.)

My mom used to listen to Dr. Laura all the time when I was a kid. She sounds awful from what I've heard about her since then, but I honestly can't remember a single thing about her one way or the other from the times I actually heard her. Which seems weird, because I've heard hours and hours of her. That has to have had a negative impact on my development.

YOU TAKE THAT BACK

well how about that then

I love how all these tough-talking right-wing nutjobs are super thin-skinned, puerile masochists who enjoy looking to be offended, even if they have to misconstrue or willfully misunderstand their "enemies'" arguments.

so I just read through the transcript and she actually accuses the caller of "black-think." ugh.

i hope this revolting woman gets tetanus and her jaw permanently locks up.

I read the transcript and I kept wondering how many white people voted for McCain just because he is white.

A girlfriend in college listened to Dr. Laura occasionally, since her mom was a fan. So I heard a couple episodes of the show (this would've been like 10 years ago) and more than the family-values cheerleading and general social conservatism, what bothered me was how quickly she interrupted her callers and began scolding them. I kept thinking "You don't know the whole situation here because you've only listened to like TEN SECONDS of what someone told you." It just seemed so uncompassionate. I guess most of the callers, if they were fans of the show, were probably prepared for that, but I felt bad for those who called her out of desperation, only to be met with her judgmental vitriol.

the type of person who is so convinced that their views are correct that they berate and scold at the person they're giving advice to is almost always working with a limited amount of information and is also incapable of understanding how complex interpersonal relationships are. i've heard her give advice to heartbroken estranged family members and she just says the dumbest, most reductive, semi-dishonest, wholly insensitive shit ever. and now she's got a martyr complex, which should be fun.

surely the whole point of this show was a theater of cruelty. i bet if you asked her "how many people do you think you've helped?" she'd probably snort and call you a marxist for using the H-word

wow this rant is absolutely vile

There always seemed to me to be a built-in trap for the callers because of the cruelty. People I know who listened to it loved it when she went on a 'stop moaning and man up' rant, which was kind of her stick afaik. It was like the whole point of the show was to slam people who need help because they needed help, and stoic, up-by-your-bootstraps Americans love to hear that.

basically the motto of the program was, "if you are emotionally affected by events in your life or relationship strain, you are a worthless human being until you learn how to not feel emotion."

it's not hard to understand why a dr. laura exists, being the instrument of punishment might be kind of fun if you're a sadist or a fanatic (check and check). and i can see why the show had an audience, in a bear-baiting kind of way. what i get less is why the show had callers. the answer was always fore-ordained, right?

i really really wonder why the woman in the interracial marriage called dr laura at all.

omar do you think there was even an "until" involved?

the Program on offer was your basic impossible biblical obedience, particularly for women, right? (did men even call much?). i wonder if ppl really didn't call to know if there was a way out of their problems but to finally hear, no, there is no way out, you can't do anything.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/08/sarah-palin-defends-dr-laura.html

welp

Oh my gosh, and she's writing like Prince.

Ok, I seriously cannot deal with Palin anymore. Hope someone reloads in her direction.

Ok, don't want to stoop to her level, but WTF?!!?!

like a moth to the abuser-logic shit talking flame...

Palin is now pathologically incapable of not grabbing an opportunity to be a cunt.

i hope Palin shows her support by dropping n-bombs regularly.

dr laura appeals to people who believe that complex emotional and interpersonal issues have simple, clear solutions -- usually involving the laying of blame somewhere. even if the callers are instructed to blame themselves, at least it presents a sort of (false) clarity.

i don't think I'll blow any minds with that last post but i don't find the fact that she has callers to be so baffling -- the world is full of ppl who are ill-equipped to talk about or deal with their emotions and problems and they just want someone to just solve it for them.

simple, clear solutions

As always with the right-wing people. They're not only to lazy for subtlety but they're too entitled for humility.

watch out Constitutional obstructionists!!

(The actual conversation, in case anyone missed it. It's kind of incredible. Her show was always like this??:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY0ccH7Hchw )

hahahahaha sarah palin is the worst person in the world

the second palin tweet was the best:

Dr.Laura=even more powerful & effective w/out the shackles, so watch out Constitutional obstructionists. And b thankful 4 her voice,America!

first of all: "shackles."

second of all: SHACKLES!?!??!

agree with elmo about why people listen to dr. laura; my mom used to when i was a teenager so i'm much more familiar with her bile than i would like to be

xxp haha it is such a perfect word choice sometimes i feel like i created sarah palin in a nightmare

watch out constitutional obstructions, now that dr. laura is freed from her nationally-syndicated radio show, which was essentially the same as one of the most pernicious symbols of the slave trade, shell be more powerful than ever

shell be the most effective person shouting the n-word in her car

frankly i think my mom likes the idea that stuff that makes her sad in life is her fault because it makes her feel like she can control it all

that's what palin tells herself, too, i think - now that i'm not a governor i'm FREE to tell the TRUTH

xpost

haha yeah if everything is your fault then at least you can theoretically do something about it

free from that cotton pickin' governmentin'

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wouldn't have predicted palin would throw in with dr. laura after the latter basically called her an unfit parent during the 08 campaign -- but i guess palin cannot resist injecting herself into every controversy ever.

she knows that if she says somethng shell be the center of attention

tbh at this point shes to the left what hillary clinton was to the right in the 1990s--obviously shes a thousand times less smart than hillary and a fundamentally unserious person which hillary isnt--but people read about her because they hate her. shit i write about palin is like 15k hits automatically and i guarantee you its not her supporters.

there was some stat about how 90% of the hits that her facebook notes get are from outside media sources

i would be interested to see those two co-host a talk show tbh

that Dr. Laura rant was worse than i expected. what a horribly repugnant woman.

b thankful 4 her voice,America!

god this country totally blows like 90% of the time now

My mom loves dr Laura, listens to her everyday. Has a heavy moralizing and critical aspect, related to her upbringing in a small conservative religious town in se Ohio.

Ugh that whole conversation is vile. I mean, lol at the caller for thinking she would get a word in edgeways to begin with...I mean, we don't really ever get to hear the full extent of her problem, because Dr Yammermouth weighs in almost immediately with "That thing that you think? That's wrong. That's not what you think. This is what you think. Let me tell you in a long winded, glib, offensive and self-important way what you think. There. Don't you feel better?"

I know people who talk like this, and the fact that she had a career as a radio host doing this is mindboggling to me.

In a perfect world, she tries out her show on the first day, pulls her schtick on the first caller and all they get is *click* *Brrr* dialtone because the caller got mad and hung up. end of Dr Laura.

Sorry for being ranty.

Can I also say that her monologue at the end of that clip terrifies me. Because god knows there's people sitting in their cars nodding along thoughtfully that 'yeah, she's right'...it makes me want to stock up on canned food and hide in the basement.

so where to now for Laura? has she done much (FOX) TV punditry in the past?

How hard can it be? I mean, if Sean Hannity can do it, anyone who can remember to blink and breathe should be able to.

she's an opinionated culture-warrior but not really a pundit -- while there's a lot of overlap between audiences i don't think she could make the format transition. she doesn't exactly come across as a competent interviewer.

How hard can it be? I mean, if Sean Hannity Steve Doocy can do it, anyone who can remember to blink and breathe should be able to.

wow that is one naked rant.

someone who's used to hanging up on people for a living sounds very foolish talking about the first amendment